Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/October 2010

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 1


 * 1) Pthirus gorillae
 * 2) Chemicals in inkjet photo paper
 * 3) biographical info about Agnes Stroud Lee
 * 4) ppb
 * 5) question regarding stars
 * 6) Ice as a murder weapon
 * 7) A question I've never pondered
 * 8) Why weed is illegal
 * 9) Increasing the range of the Strong Nuclear Force
 * 10) Microwaving a beetle
 * 11) Would it be possible (assuming enough materials and labor (!)) to make a stone tower so tall it CANNOT crack? (but instead deforms plastically)
 * 12) Weak equivalence question

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 2


 * 1) plasma rockets-pbsnova
 * 2) How much copper and/or gold is there in an HDMI cable?
 * 3) Indoor air quality solutions?
 * 4) Softwood
 * 5) breast question
 * 6) Why does my head click if I turn it too fast?
 * 7) 50 F/500 - speaker
 * 8) Howwhy tastes enhance eachother or cancel eachother out?
 * 9) Electrical energy
 * 10) Mushrooms in BC
 * 11) Crystaline sucrose
 * 12) Disease Labs
 * 13) 3D technology for teaching cats and dogs
 * 14) Albert Einstein
 * 15) Vintage sperm doesn't produce vintage offspring?
 * 16) Gliese 581 g comparisons that are fair
 * 17) Black holes?
 * 18) Mushrooms
 * 19) Phonophore - communication device

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 3


 * 1) Centre of mass of the Earth
 * 2) stelar cartography
 * 3) Bio engineering
 * 4) How does a rocket "steer"?
 * 5) Ensembl sucks as*!
 * 6) Global oxygen production of Algae
 * 7) Masturbation

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 4


 * 1) SI: The Logical System?
 * 2) HIV infection
 * 3) Pre-positioned nuclear weapons
 * 4) What is in this picture of Mars?
 * 5) Jellyfish - bubbles in the top part
 * 6) Is toxoplasmosis a cause for discrimination?
 * 7) Dissimilarities between cell lines and genome databases
 * 8) Disrupting a gene by inserting a marker - how to express the marker?
 * 9) Six volt automotive systems
 * 10) calculating odds
 * 11) Soil PH 8.3
 * 12) Stinky refrigerator
 * 13) Storing Cr2032 Batteries
 * 14) Passage of Time
 * 15) How fast would you have to be going to get to Jupiter in a year?

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 5


 * 1) E=mc2
 * 2) DNA
 * 3) Robert G. Edwards
 * 4) Good-smelling bad smells
 * 5) Gravitational constant
 * 6) Dealing with excessive moisture inside an apartment...
 * 7) HIV infection through childbirth?
 * 8) Paleontology
 * 9) In-line duct heater
 * 10) Percentage of common genes
 * 11) Physical meaning of 1 Farad = 1 Second/Ohm
 * 12) Permanganate reaction with heat
 * 13) irish  tornadoes
 * 14) Video clips stuff for science articles
 * 15) Is E=mc^2 an approximation?
 * 16) Celebrity endorsement - scientific name of?
 * 17) Ethanethiol production
 * 18) Why do parrots mimic human speech?
 * 19) 5' on sense strand corresponds to C or N terminal on protein?
 * 20) "treated merino wool

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 6


 * 1) change in ic engine
 * 2) Atlantic halibut
 * 3) Planet gravity
 * 4) Cleaning detergents
 * 5) Microfibre cloths for cleaning
 * 6) The theory of toxic sludge lagoons, re: Hungary's red flood

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 7


 * 1) using sulfur to make carbon-carbon bonds
 * 2) 3-second Pop Tarts?
 * 3) ...sulfuric acid costs 9.8 cents a litre
 * 4) Slit diffraction
 * 5) Einstein's view
 * 6) Why do Some people have heavier sleep than others?
 * 7) Where to focus to photograph a mirror reflection
 * 8) Chicken genome nuggets
 * 9) diffraction of white light versus monochromatic light
 * 10) Pressure cooker - rubber ring
 * 11) Can expressing GFP interfere with any cellular processes?
 * 12) Coin question
 * 13) Metal detectors outside MRI rooms
 * 14) Seeing through frosted glass or net curtains with a telescope or zoom lens
 * 15) Mushroom identification
 * 16) Boiling milk in a microwave oven
 * 17) Red mud into iron?
 * 18) Is "dark energy" really the Universe's brane whipping around?

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 8


 * 1) There are mentions of cross-linked polystyrene. Rexolite is a significant industrial example. Why no mention of it?
 * 2) Which one of these will change color in a Biuret Reagent test?
 * 3) Rocket science
 * 4) Highest mountains in Europe and reliable sources
 * 5) Lizard hibernation
 * 6) CM1 is to DMEM as swing is to roundabout?
 * 7) Seiche
 * 8) Accuracy of Gas Regulators
 * 9) Painting a GarageFloor
 * 10) is empirical electronegativity strictly transitive?
 * 11) river rock

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 9


 * 1) Why do parrots live such a long time?
 * 2) Levitating animal
 * 3) Radio-controlled watch exactly 40 minutes fast
 * 4) Dead transistor radio
 * 5) Making selections in Pymol
 * 6) Why are we not researching this?
 * 7) Ideal Springs
 * 8) Whole grain on the food pyramid

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 10


 * 1) Practical way
 * 2) Map of direction of stellar and galactic motion
 * 3) What is this on the roof?
 * 4) Insect identification
 * 5) Carbon footprint
 * 6) Lead toxicity
 * 7) Work/Power problem
 * 8) backlighting digital cameras
 * 9) Which preservatives are used in McDonald's french fires?

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 11


 * 1) Ascorbic acid (or other antioxidants) as a redox catalyst
 * 2) How do I grow a really long beard?
 * 3) B12
 * 4) Folding my own proteins @home
 * 5) Holes of insects in old wood
 * 6) Passing on sex genes
 * 7) plasma phase carbanions
 * 8) where can I get tris(pentafluorophenyl)boron?
 * 9) Phosphodiesterase vs. phosphoesterase?
 * 10) relativity question
 * 11) Pigeons on my TV aerial?
 * 12) Egg in Vinegar

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 12


 * 1) Missing reference/article
 * 2) Nuclear isomers for chemical transmutation of gold i.e. alchemy?
 * 3) Calculate the heat supplied
 * 4) is it a contradiction to know something about something we can't know anything about?
 * 5) Electrode potentials at red heat
 * 6) Chile mine rescue
 * 7) Unitary operator
 * 8) Emulsion paint - why not water-soluble when dry?
 * 9) why wrinkles around mouth
 * 10) natural sciences v. finance
 * 11) expansion of the universe

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 13


 * 1) Water being included as a test subject
 * 2) Sanpaku
 * 3) Is it a fungus?
 * 4) Incinerating raw sewage using liquid oxygen?
 * 5) speed and distance of expansion
 * 6) "pass through" versus "bounce"
 * 7) Conductive Napalm
 * 8) Humans in North America
 * 9) Blood tranfusion
 * 10) If it's not in UniProt, does it still exist?
 * 11) Identify device
 * 12) What happened to my apple juice?

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 14


 * 1) difference between quantum state and wavefunction?
 * 2) Contact lens solutions don't drip out of bottles when inverted.
 * 3) Space telescope naming question--Edwin Hubble got one, how about Henrietta Leavitt?
 * 4) Synthesis of 3-Carbethoxycoumarin
 * 5) magnitude of contact forces
 * 6) Walking or Cycling?
 * 7) N-Acetylglucosamine as a protein ligand
 * 8) Magnesium flame test
 * 9) Chilean miners'  dental problems
 * 10) Semi-terrestrial octopuses/octopi/octopodes...
 * 11) How does this levitation magnet system's feedback system likely work?
 * 12) Horse Chestnuts, leaf miner and bleeding canker
 * 13) Odds of discovery of Pioneer plaque by an ET

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 15


 * 1) how do you define time ?
 * 2) memory storage devices
 * 3) how to explain the oxidation of ethers  to esters with calcium hypochlorite? (and a question about activated C-H bonds)
 * 4) Upper limit on speeds
 * 5) reversible oxidation of a USB plug?
 * 6) Link crashes
 * 7) Sodium tellurate
 * 8) methane + CO2 --> acetic acid
 * 9) Thermodynamics question
 * 10) Should my neighbor's cat drink old milk?
 * 11) Next Day Soup.
 * 12) is there such a thing as "mild chlorine poisoning"?
 * 13) How does matter fall into a black hole?

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 16


 * 1) Wedge Constant:- newton laws of motion
 * 2) EDTA reaction
 * 3) aging and sensory capacity
 * 4) Elliptical Orbit vs Circular Orbit problem
 * 5) Train tracks and leaves
 * 6) tunnel diode
 * 7) Sapience
 * 8) Nuclear Physics

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 17


 * 1) Cobalt chlorides
 * 2) Controlled mass loss of Earth.
 * 3) unprovoked reoccuring blister type lesions on feet
 * 4) Mass of copper
 * 5) Flatulence smelling
 * 6) pressure exerted by expanding ice
 * 7) caffeine
 * 8) Carbon monoxide detector
 * 9) Papillomaviruses stable for months??
 * 10) Killing Me Softly With a TV
 * 11) Absorb my frameshifts
 * 12) Amount of energy required to boil water
 * 13) Elbow braces and tendinitis
 * 14) To what extent are humans adapted to meat-eating?
 * 15) Wildlife ID - does this sound like a slime mold?

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 18


 * 1) Train Speed vs Plane Speed
 * 2) In the animal kingdom, do females compete over males?
 * 3) Beatrice being buried alive in Kill Bill Vol. 2
 * 4) linear diode
 * 5) Galvanic corrosion
 * 6) light pulse intensity with time
 * 7) Mass spectra
 * 8) Squirrel locomotion
 * 9) What we see is a prediction
 * 10) When a balloon pops, does it go supersonic?
 * 11) Nepal timezone
 * 12) Can acid reflux irritate the tonsil?

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 19


 * 1) Modified Stern-Gerlach device
 * 2) sofa acquiring static electricity from sunlight
 * 3) Forests half blown down
 * 4) How long is my exon?
 * 5) what do you do with a hypothesis? "decide" it?
 * 6) Lithium hydroxide reaction with carbon dioxide
 * 7) Special PCR machine for touchdown PCR?
 * 8) NIR Technology
 * 9) Multiple partners
 * 10) Tin(II) oxide hydrate
 * 11) Wave function for large objects
 * 12) Oyster name

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 20


 * 1) Pancreatin
 * 2) P-v curve problem
 * 3) Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
 * 4) how much would it cost a fit 20 year old to go die on Mars with a 5% chance of dying sooner
 * 5) exploring mars
 * 6) Thermodynamics question
 * 7) Animal nutritional requirements
 * 8) voice
 * 9) Bismuth toxicity
 * 10) Mass spectrometry

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 21


 * 1) Griswold - knitting industry machine
 * 2) Explanation
 * 3) Visible, or not visible?
 * 4) Age of the universe by isotope ratios
 * 5) Turning flight
 * 6) isolated system
 * 7) wireless transfer of elecrticity for long distance transmisan
 * 8) Water in the equilibrium expression?
 * 9) white light fringes in the Michelson interferometer
 * 10) Improved Brownian ratchet would overcome the second law of thermodynamics?
 * 11) Is sushi healthy?
 * 12) Focusing on a blurred image
 * 13) Tritan
 * 14) MCH and MCHC units
 * 15) Coplanar forces

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 22


 * 1) How many generations have there been?
 * 2) Dark matter: cold gravitationally bound clumps of H and He?
 * 3) Age of plants and animals in Copernican exoplanet expectations
 * 4) Bread made with "100% British Wheat"
 * 5) Feeling of blood circulation
 * 6) "HMS Astute: world's most advanced nuclear submarine runs aground" -- world's most advanced? why?
 * 7) nerve regeneration and pain?
 * 8) Tin(II) oxide hydrate oxidation
 * 9) good bacteria
 * 10) Pancreatin Reaction
 * 11) positive on-off switch

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 23


 * 1) The "sound" of light
 * 2) Drooping crops..
 * 3) Rope on a table
 * 4) Flowering in Basil (Ocimum sp.)
 * 5) Moment of Inertia
 * 6) Steam or smoke from nuclear sub
 * 7) Patents for fuel-efficient engines owned by oil companies - did they also bribe Snopes?
 * 8) How to find an astronaut
 * 9) light travel time vs. light year distance
 * 10) DNA
 * 11) Bodies in space
 * 12) Library of Congress
 * 13) Potential habitability of extrasolar planetary star systems
 * 14) Expanding gas
 * 15) toothbrushes
 * 16) center of mass problem
 * 17) thermo-plastic emulsion
 * 18) Kinetic Energy Lost
 * 19) Which red cattle breed in Guadeloupe?
 * 20) Green pennies
 * 21) Chicken vs chicken

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 24


 * 1) UDFy-38135539 both exists AND may have been seen by space aliens, or something
 * 2) Stay with me, buddy; we're gonna make it through this
 * 3) Large rigid structures on the ocean
 * 4) The law of thermodynamics
 * 5) Underwater wrecks and pressure
 * 6) is this real?
 * 7) follicles
 * 8) Foucault pendulum swings
 * 9) measuring id, ego, etc.
 * 10) regarding use of solumedrol
 * 11) glacier grit
 * 12) Why do humans need potable water?
 * 13) Light speed and giant sticks

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 25


 * 1) Dark spots/bruises on old people's skin
 * 2) Calorimetry
 * 3) Atom pic
 * 4) Dry CuCl
 * 5) When do you think they'll come out with plasma weapons?
 * 6) 2 errors ?
 * 7) Sticking the Landing
 * 8) how would we even know
 * 9) Probability amplitudes
 * 10) Making Helium
 * 11) Golden cross on the Moon
 * 12) Comet identification
 * 13) Pulpit Rock

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 26


 * 1) Digestion
 * 2) Angular momentum
 * 3) Evaluating IQ without math
 * 4) Ironing interferes with digital TV reception
 * 5) Number of people on earth
 * 6) Highest rank with only one species in it?
 * 7) Magnetic flux and electricity
 * 8) Tachyon
 * 9) relation between friction and area
 * 10) Lagrangian point
 * 11) Orangutan strength
 * 12) Double Displacement Reactions

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 27


 * 1) Naturally-occurring promethium
 * 2) Formation of gold deposits
 * 3) some one will helpme that in which place i should ask my questions
 * 4) Spelter
 * 5) Magnetic flux and electricity
 * 6) Magnetic flux and magnets
 * 7) Tillage
 * 8) chocolate bar
 * 9) The Vitamin B12
 * 10) mosquito eggs and larva
 * 11) does puree count as a liquid?
 * 12) Magnets and electricity...again!
 * 13) Combining tornadoes
 * 14) Colloidal iron?
 * 15) Are the majority of birds noisy fliers?
 * 16) Go (weiqi) - computers vs human brains
 * 17) Cryosurgery to repair torn tissue?
 * 18) Quantum Entanglement

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 28


 * 1) Why do flour and sugar store so well?
 * 2) force
 * 3) Sexuality question
 * 4) My theory on why we often can’t run in dreams – is it valid?
 * 5) solar enery storage
 * 6) Is ADD real?
 * 7) O2 effect on metabolism
 * 8) Pyrotechnic colorant
 * 9) Complement system and antibody-antigen complexes
 * 10) Tachyons
 * 11) Another chemistry question
 * 12) Geodesic dome  garden shed
 * 13) Figuring names out for cells
 * 14) Possible circuit that shows this particular voltage/current pattern
 * 15) BPA degrade

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 29


 * 1) Are "spectrum disorders" really just a way of saying "we don't know" ?
 * 2) 120W power supply 30W load
 * 3) Phase behavior of pure substances below triple point pressure
 * 4) electricity doesn't weight anything
 * 5) Fuel Consumption vs CO2 emmissions
 * 6) Firing a ceramic
 * 7) Multiple tasks with both individual hands difficulty
 * 8) Energy Anomaly??
 * 9) Is the thymus an endocrine gland?
 * 10) Clamped buttress
 * 11) on utilizing sound energy
 * 12) Big Cats
 * 13) Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power
 * 14) CFL bulbs afterglow "flashing"
 * 15) my project
 * 16) Toothpaste
 * 17) Hardness of human teeth
 * 18) What looks like peas?

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 30


 * 1) Carbonated drinks and digestive health?
 * 2) uakari fruits
 * 3) Time dilation? Time speeding?
 * 4) Stained glass
 * 5) Is it possible to create an exotic atom with antiprotons instead of electrons?
 * 6) Woodchip bug
 * 7) volcanic tropical  cyclones
 * 8) Pure energy
 * 9) DC Circuits - resistors
 * 10) What is the average age of onset of Alzheimer's disease?
 * 11) SECIS element
 * 12) does citric acid actively mask the taste of ethanol?
 * 13) Difficulty in differentiating actors and actresses from the fictional characters they portray?
 * 14) Theory?

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 31


 * 1) Artificial reefs
 * 2) Earthworms
 * 3) Optical computing
 * 4) why do plants use so much more potassium than animals?
 * 5) Contradiction in the solution to a Physics question?
 * 6) Solar cells, dark current and current direction
 * 7) Creature in Thailand
 * 8) Curious phenomenon
 * 9) Birefringence